Title: Where There's Smoke
Author: Demothi
Summary: Roxanne and Megamind's wonderful date had been a blast, but then it turned into one literally. Rated T, violence, innuendo. Mm/RR
Beta: Phantom77
Roxanne looked down at her hands. Bandages were wrapped tightly around each finger, over her hands and up her wrists. She grimaced as she flexed her hands, feeling the skin stretch. Suddenly a sharp pain radiated up through her hand, putting the dull ache it had been into retrospect. She had probably just split the skin that was trying desperately to heal over her knuckles.
She heard a soft groan and looked up with a hopeful expression on her still soot covered face. She took a moment to study the prone figure but found that nothing had changed. The hope fell from her face. There on the hospital bed lay the blue figure of Metro City's and her own hero; there were dozens of IVs connecting him to many liquids of various different colors while a face mask forced air into him, regulating his breathing pattern. Every inch of his body that was left was covered in bandages.
"How did this happen?" she asked in a horse whisper to the man she loved. "What happened to us?"
She thought back on the day; how she had been chomping at the bit to get her segment filmed and submitted for airing. She felt as if every moment were hours, but when she was finally done and ran home Roxanne found that she was ready long before she needed to be. That night was going to be special, because, as Megamind had reminded her it was the one year mark from the time that they had met in the museum (with him disguised as Bernard) when he started on the path that showed him his true passion, for being Good.
Megamind had made their plans for the night. He had only told her to be ready by 7 and to dress nice, but nothing too fancy. She had picked out her cute black and white dress, the white traveling in abstract geometrical shapes across the black background, wide at one shoulder and tapering diagonally down to her waist line where it disappeared.
He had arrived at 7 sharp, on his rocket bike which he parked on her patio. He was dressed in sleek black leather pants and an open button up white shirt over a form fitting black tee. The image he cut was very defined and Roxanne started to wonder if he would mind her jumping him and delaying their plans.
"Come on," he had whispered, taking her hands in his and leading her out to the bike. "We have plans to keep." He winked.
They had gone to a movie. Megamind having bought out a theater, but instead of keeping it empty he had donated the other tickets to the Metro City orphanage. When they arrived it gave the kids a great surprise, Megamind showing off and making them laugh at his antics. Though it was still only kids, he seemed to be getting better at dealing with people which made Roxanne happy.
They had left the movie, an all ages comedy, rolling with laughter. Megamind had surprised her by bringing her to a posh, up scale restaurant. They shared a wonderful meal, sat and chatted like they had back when she has fallen in love with him. She had come to terms with what had happened then, having to admit that if he had never looked and acted like Bernard she wouldn't have given him the time of day.
Once they had finished lingering over a delicious chocolate dessert they went back to the hover bike, and he headed back to her apartment. He had stopped landing on her patio after 10 when he found out that she had been getting complaints from about half the building. Being as it was 10:30 she was sure that her neighbors would have been grateful, if they had known.
He had lead her up to the building waving to Carlos, who he had made a true apology to, even gifting a security system he had invented to the door man to help him out with his job. They had made their way to her apartment and he had unlocked it, making a show of opening the door up for her.
That was when everything went wrong, there was a flash of light and a wave of heat. It was followed by a boom of sound, covering the terrified scream that ripped from her throat. She knew, once the realization that a bomb had gone off dawned on her, that if Megamind hadn't been in front of her she would have been dead.
When she finally registered the world around her she was on the floor of the hallway, pressed down flat as yet another blast sounded off above her, Megamind's body above her, covering her as best he could. Before she could gather her thoughts to speak yet another blast occurred, just a bit further down the hall. When the terrifying mass of sound, heat and light had ended it had taken her a few more moments to react, and when she did she found that Megamind was unconscious. The next couple hours passed by in a rush of pain, terror and sorrow.
She stared at the body in front of her, having long ago gone deaf to the constant beeping, tears cutting painful tracks down her face.
"Thank you" she said, pressing her lips to the bandaged forehead, "for never letting me be hurt." She felt so tired and decided to rest her head on her folded arms for just a little and within moments was dead asleep.
TBC
Authors Note: Okay, so this is a bit different from my Kidnap Me stories, much more serious, and I left you with some what of a cliffhanger, but I assure you that I will not be leaving this one lay for long, just enough to get people interested ;) I hope people like this and I will be writing to you again soon.